All resources: Trinidad and Tobago

Brochure

Workers on the move in the CSME : rights at work and benefits for workers in the CARICOM single market and economy

Brochure detailing the rights at work and benefits for workers in the Caricom Single Market and Economy

ILO's International Training Centre to forge closer ties with Labour Colleges

Labour Colleges and other select organizations with established training programmes related to labour, will soon be able to benefit further from opportunities for training and partnerships offered by the International Labour Organization's...

ILO Training for labour inspectors

The United Nation's International Labour Organization (ILO), Subregional Office for the Caribbean, in collaboration with the Ministry of Urban Development, Culture, Labour and Electoral Matters, St. Vincent and the Grenadines will host a training...

ILO launches first in a series of training workshops for labour officials

Jamaican Prime Minister calls ILO's Decent Work Agenda critical to overcoming poverty -- warns of " human tsunami of frustration, rage and...

Prime Minister of Jamaica, Portia Simpson Miller, address to government, employer and worker delegates to the annual Conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO)

Final Report of the Sixth Meeting of Caribbean Labour Ministers Trinidad and Tobago

This reports documents the proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of Caribbean Labour Ministers.

Caribbean Labour Ministers meet to advance Decent Work Agenda

Labour Ministers and other high-level labour officials from the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean will convene at the Trinidad Hilton and Conference Centre, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on 15-16 May 2007 for the Sixth Meeting of Caribbean...

Highlights of ILO’S Work in the Caribbean (April 2004- April 2007)

This reports on the work of the International Labour Organization’s Subregional Office for the Caribbean to its constituents in the Caribbean during the period April 2004- April 2007.

Reader

Industrial relations in the Caribbean : issues and perspectives

This Reader on industrial relations is intended to stimulate thinking and add to the debates over the future direction of national and regional labour policies leading to the transformation of labour relations as it pertains to the Caribbean...

Child molesters running free (Sunday, February 12, 2006, Trinidad and Tobago Express)

Intro: Only two weeks ago news broke of a 12-year-old boy who had been buggered before he was thrown in a pond where he drowned. Dane Andrews, a pupil of Hindustan Government Primary, had reportedly gone to a man-made pond at...

ILO initiatives paying off, says Labour Minister (February 2006, Trinidad and Tobago Express)

Questions have been raised about Trinidad and Tobago's ability to effectively deal with child sex abuse, child pornography and child labour by the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Publication

Caribbean labour relations systems : an overview 2nd Edition

This book presents some current issues confronting governments and the social partners - representatives of trade unions and employers and their organizations.

Child labour charge in teen's death at TCL (November 2005, The Trinidad Guardian)

The Trinidad Cement Ltd group's human resource manager, Courtney Mc Nish, has promised that the Company "will not hide anything" in the investigation of the death of 17 year-old contract worker Dinesh Rampersad.

Child labour rising in T&T (October 2005, Trinidad and Tobago Express)

Children are being turned into prostitutes and in one case a girl as young as eight, in Central Trinidad, was discovered selling her body to customers for as little as $5. They are hustling sales on street corners and in the market place, taking up...

Stem tide of child labour (October 2005, Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday)

THE EDITOR: The Convention on the Rights of the Child states in article 32 re: child labour that...1) State parties recognise the right of the child to be protected from economic exploitation and from...

USDOL-ILO Management & Labor cooperation project “PROMALCO”: For the promotion of human resource-oriented enterprise strategies and...

Projects RLA/02/57/USA RLA/00/52/USA

Modern day slavery (August 2005, The Trinidad Guardian)

Tomorrow the world marks the UN International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its abolition. We remember the thousands of slaves who suffered dehumanising treatment.

Child labour exposed -- Eliminating the scourge in the Caribbean's top offenders (June 2005, Trinidad and Tobago Express)

"This is not the image that the Caribbean has of itself", said Leslie Bowrin, International Labour Oranisation Regional Child Labour Project Manager.

A Review of Child Labour Laws of Trinidad and Tobago - a Guide to Legislative Reform

This study, commissioned by the International Labour Organization, Subregional Office for the Caribbean, reviews the laws on child labour in Trinidad and Tobago, within the context of ILO Convention No. 138 on the Minimum Age for Admission to...

Fact Sheet: Child Labour in Trinidad